<pleasereplytogroup@thankyou.com> wrote:

>I hope I'm getting the right group this time.
>
>I am trying to programmatically build a tabstrip (creating a template
>class for my site that contains a tabstrip in the header). I'm using
>the tabstrip from "Microsoft.web.ui.webcontrol" (iewebcontrols).
>
>I have a form (as htmlform) to which I am adding controls and html
>(via literalcontrol) and I try to add the tabstrip as follows:
>
>'declare and initialize as appropriate:
>Dim tsTopNav As Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabStrip = New
>Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabStrip
>
>Dim tiHome As Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.TabItem
>
>'set tabstrip properties
> tsTopNav.ID = "tsTopNav"
> tsTopNav.AutoPostBack = True
> tsTopNav.SepDefaultImageUrl = "/gfx/spacer.gif"
> tsTopNav.TabDefaultStyle.Add("background-color:", "#e6e6e6")
> tsTopNav.TabDefaultStyle.Add("font-family", "verdana")
>etc...
>
>'set up tabitem
>tiHome.Text = "Home"
>
>'add tabitem to tabstrip
>tsTopNav.Items.Add(tiHome)
>
>and I get
>"Object Reference not set to and instance of an object" in the line
>where tiHome.text = "Home" happens.
>
>Somehow tiHome is not properly being set up.
>
>Any ideas?
>-
>Hal